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MACHINERY FOR SWBBPING AND CONVEYING AWAY REFUSE FROM STREETS.

No. 328,795. Patented Oct. 20, 1885.

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MACHINERY FOR SWEEPI-NG AND CONVEYING AWAY REFUSE FROM STREETS.

No. 328,795. Patented 0011.20, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

\VILLIAM MARCH, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

MACHINERY FOR SWEEPING AND CONVEYING AWAY REFUSE FROM STREETS. i I

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,795, dated October 20, 1885.

Application filed Octoberlfi, [884. Serial No. 145,675. ,(No model.) Patented in England January 1, 1884, N0. 91,

the rods being terminated by eyes, in which To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MARon, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 3 St. Mary Axe, in the city of London, England,engineer, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Machinery for Sweeping and Conveying away Refuse from Streets, Roadways, and other Places, (for which I have ob tained a patent in Great Britain, No. 91, bearing date January 1, 1884,) of which the following is a specification, reference being hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similarletters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Figure 1 is an elevation showing the right hand side of my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the left-hand side, and Fig. 3 is a modification of the same. Fig. 4 is a detail showing the manner of connecting the buckets to the chains so as to pass over wheels 8.

My invention consists of a machine for working behind a cart or wagon, or to form part thereof, for the purpose of sweeping the roads as it proceeds, the cart or wagon being arranged to receive the sweepings.

A short endless chain with brushes or scrapers a a is fitted upon the front shaft, as shown in the drawings. The chain revolves on two shafts, b b, the upper shaft, I), being driven by a pinion, c, which gears into a spur-ring,- gf, bolted to one of the large road wheels; Each brush, when necessary, is jointed or' hinged in one or more parts of its length, so as to adaptitselfmore readily to uneven roads.

The axle of the large wheels is placed in the front part of the machine. The brushes sweep the refuse up an inclined brush-pan into the elevator-case, to which the pan is hinged. Two short levers, e 6, one on each side of the machine, are centered at their large ends upon the axle-collars. One of these levers, e, carries the shaft b supporting the upper end of the chain of brushes. The other end of this shaft revolves not in the opposite lever, e,but in the lower end of a small upright lever, b depending therefrom, and which,being pivoted to lever 6 by a bolt, b passingthrough both, enables the aforesaid pinion to be thrown in and out of gear. The two shafts of the chain of brushes are connected by a set of right and left threaded rods, f, and elongated nuts f;

both shafts revolve. The rear or small ends of each of the levers e 6 will be suspended from the angle-iron frame 0 by means of ascrewed eyebolt, g, which passes loosely through the frame, and has one nut, 0 above and one, 0 below the frame, in the manner illustrted in Fig. 1, whereby the brushes can be lowered to the pan as they wear away. The lower end of the brush-pan h is suspended at both sides by chains d, fastened to cranks Z, which arekeyed to the rocking shaft 0 above. The brush-pan h supports both ends of the hind shaft, 6, of the brushes by means of another set of right and left threaded rods, 1 and elongated nuts '5, so that not only both the pan and brushes are raised simultaneously by depress ing the hand-lever k of the rocking shaft,'but both pan and brushes are likewise free to rise over any unusual obstruction in the road.

The rocking-bar crank Zon the brush-pinion side of the machine (see Fig. 1) has a perforated boss, (i at its rear side, about half-way down. A rod, d connects this boss to the top of the small upright lever 1), whereby the pinion is thrown into and out of gear as the brush-pan is either lowered or raised by the hand-lever.

The elevator at consists of an inclined case, m, containing a series of buckets, M, which work inside or between the two chain-wheels r r and their chains on, the buckets being attached to the chains by flaps m, cast on the links of the chains, as will be clearly'understood by reference to Figs. 1 and 4.

A little below the top wheels are two smaller wheels, 8, which work upon short and independent shafts revolving in bearings, one on each side of the case. Thesmall wheels gather in the descending part of the chains, so that the buckets which are fastened to them, after discharging their contents, are drawn inward, whereby the inner edge of the shoot 4 can be placed directly under th'espot where thebuokets begin to empty themselves. The elevator is driven by a spur-ring, y, on the left-hand large wheel and the pinions y y", the pinion being thrown out of mesh with ring 3/ by means of the. lever t, the said pinion being keyed onto a short shaft revolving in the lever 13, while the lower end of the lever is centered '15 a: small wheel, .n.

upon the' lower shaft of the elevator or upon the circular bearing 'of that shaft, as shown in Fig. 2. The upper end of this lever has a pin, t, fixed into it, which slides in a slot in the chute-lever u, so that when the pinion-lever is drawn back to disengage the pinion it at the same timeraises the chute q, the slotted lever u and eyes q of the chute being keyed to a rocking shaft, q, working -upon eye-straps q", fastened to the case.

The pinion-lever t is held in position by a movable pin, which passes through the guide framew, .in which the lever :works.

The machine is supported at its rear end by The .machine is fastened behind the draft-wagon which receives .the

. sweepings by an .upright hook, o, the ,rear

partbf whichslides freely up and down .in a .roundhole of .ablock or .jawipiece, .p,fastened .in front of .thecase. The fore part-of thehoo'kis square, and entersa square. holeof an .iron -block, .(shown in dotted lines .ata; in Fig. 1,) andbolted underneathandat the .end of :the wagon. A catch, v12f, operated by .a vrope, .v, 2 5 passedrover a pulley, c falls under the block .topreventthe hook rising.

{Should .it :berequired to dispense with=a .separate wagon. and place ,a receptacle forv the mud .upon themach-ine itself, Kthismay beef- 0 fected, ,asshown in .Fig. 3, by carrying the large wheels ,farther back .and placing the wheel nlin jfrontoftheelevator andlcansing it to revolve in an larched pedestal, n, with -.a perch-,boltat the top.forlocking. The eleva- 3 5 tor-case .will then incline inward instead of outward, .andthe buckets -,will run in theop- ,posit'e direction.

The body-will be supported .on the frame bya liinge, 12?, underneath thebody and alit o tle to the rearof thecenterof its-length, and w'illibe tipped byha worm, if, and segment of a worm-wheel, n, the latter being bolted to the under frameof .the body. The bearings .of :theworm-shaft and the necessary miter- 5 .wheel's'haft will be bolted .totheifixedframe upon which the body-rests.

:Having now particularly described and ascerta'inedthe nature .of .my. said invention and in what mannenthe, same is to be performed,

I wouldhave it understood'that I do .not,con-

finemyselfito the exactarrangement of all-the parts herein described, which ,may be varied without departing from thenature of the in- Wentiom jI declarethat what 'I ,GIaimis- "1. The combination .of the wheeled support, the spur-ring .connected with one of the drive-wheels of. saidvv support, the chain of brushes, the levensupports 0 .ef, .the leverjb .60 pivoted "toss lp port the :upper shaft of the chain of brushes 3' ou-rnaled at one .endiin, sup- ,port ,eiandat the other ,endiinsaid .leverfb -'and provided witha pinion ,mes'hingwith the spur-ring ,on said drive-wheel thelever iful- 6 5 .crumed .on the wheeledsupport, andthe, rod

connecting said lever with the lever 72, to throw said pinion in and out of mesh, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the wheeled support, the elevator-case m, the pan h, hinged thereto, the hinged levers e e, the chain of brushes a, connected with pan h, the lever b pivoted to lever e, the shaft 1;, provided with pinion c, meshing with spur-ring y connected to one of the wheels of the wheeled support and journaled at one end in the lever b and 'atthe other end in lever e, and-the lever k, connected with pan handlever 11*, whereby both pan and brushes may be raised and the pinion 0 thrown .out of mesh by the same lever .70, substantially asldescribed.

3. The combination, with a wheeled sup- ,port andan elevator connected'therewith, of ,the,pan.h, ,thehinged levers e e, the lever 5b, the chain of brushes connected with levers. e zandzbfi the frame 0., bolts connected with said levers e -e,, ,and .nuts 0 c on said'bolts above and below said frame, whereby said brushes may be adjusted to and from said ,pan, substantiallyas described.

4. The combination of a wheeled support having a spurring, y, operated from one of its drive-wheels, an elevator-case provided with an endless chain of buckets, agpivotcd lever, 13, provided with a pinion, mesh- .ing with the spur-ring g and apinion y, on .oneshaft of the bucket-chain, a slottedlever, .1, connected with lever 15, anda hinged chute, q, connected ,with lever a, substantially as described.

5. "The combination of the elevator case, the endless chain of buckets, wheels 1 and 1" for supporting the same at top and bottom, the delivery-chute at the upper end ofthe case, and the gathering-wheels 8 below the wheels 1' and between the bucket-chain and inner end-of chute q, asshown, to perm'it'the inner edge of the chute to be brought directly empty, substantially as described.

6. The combination, with a wheeled support andan elevator-case, m, of the ,hook 0, the catch v,attached thereto, and the rope 11?, secured tosaid catch and the case, substantiallyasidescribed.

7. The combination of a wheeled support, an elevator carrying an endless chain of buckets, ane'ndless chain of brushes for sweeping into said elevator-buckets, a delivery-chute, ,q, a'tthe upper end of the ,elevator, and areceivingreceptacle to receive sweepings'from said chute, ,substantiallyas described.

'Initestimony xwhereof I have hereuntoset ,myfhand this lstday of October, 1884.

WILLIAM MARGH..

"Witnesses:

Geo. LO. Domino,

3 Quality Gt. London.

,PERcY R. GOLDRING, I

17 Gracechurch'street, London.

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